RE: triggers

If you're looking for a decent starting place for triggers, here's what I
use.  It's RPG, but could be translated to COBOL or any other language
you're using:

D TrigFlds      E DS                  EXTNAME(TRGFLDPF)           
D FileImage     E DS                  EXTNAME(FILENAME)            
 *                                                                
D WPPARM1         DS                                              
D  P_Trigger                          LIKE(TrigFlds)              
D  P_Before                           LIKE(FileImage)             
D  O_FldMap                     15                                
D  P_After                            LIKE(FileImage)             
D  N_FldMap                           LIKE(O_FldMap)              
 *                                                                
D WPPARM2         DS                                              
D  T_BuffLen              1      4B 0                             

WPPARM1 and WPPARM2 are the two input parms used by a trigger.  FileImage is
an external DS defined using the filename the trigger is attached to.

O_FldMap must be set to the number of fields in the file the trigger is
attached to.  In this case there are 15 fields in the file, so the size of
this field is 15.

TRGFLDPF is used to externally define the trigger specific fields.  This is
just a PF used only for external DS definition.  It looks like this:

A          R TRGFLD                    TEXT('TRIGGER FILE')             
A            TGFILE        10          TEXT('FILE NAME')                
A            TGLIB         10          TEXT('LIBRARY NAME')             
A            TGMBR         10          TEXT('MEMBER NAME')              
A            TGEVENT        1          TEXT('TRIGGER EVENT')            
A            TGTIME         1          TEXT('TRIGGER TIME')             
A            TGCOMLEV       1          TEXT('COMMIT LEVEL')             
A            TGRSVD1        3          TEXT('RESERVED FIELD 1')         
A            TGCCSID        6  0B      TEXT('CODED CHARACTER SET ID')   
A            TGRSVD2        8          TEXT('RESERVED FIELD 2')         
A            TGO_OFFSET     6  0B      TEXT('ORIGINAL RECORD OFFSET')   
A            TGO_LEN        6  0B      TEXT('ORIGINAL RECORD LENGTH')   
A            TGO_NULLOS     6  0B      TEXT('ORIGINAL NULL OFFSET')     
A            TGO_NULLLN     6  0B      TEXT('ORIGINAL NULL LENGTH')     
A            TGN_OFFSET     6  0B      TEXT('NEW RECORD OFFSET')        
A            TGN_LEN        6  0B      TEXT('NEW RECORD LENGTH')        
A            TGN_NULLOS     6  0B      TEXT('NEW NULL OFFSET')          
A            TGN_NULLLN     6  0B      TEXT('NEW NULL LENGTH')          
A            TGRSVD3       16          TEXT('RESERVED FIELD 3')  

Once this is all defined, you add a few lines of code and you've got a
trigger "shell" program.  The only thing you need to change is the O_FldMap
as stated above to be the same number as how many fields are in the file.

C     *ENTRY        PLIST                            
C                   PARM                    WPPARM1  
C                   PARM                    WPPARM2  
 *
C                   eval      FileImage = P_After   
 * now you can do anything you want checking the values using the file name
field names


Brad
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